STUDENT CRITIQUES

Claudia Morgan 5

Smugglers Bay, acrylic Ooh that’s some beautiful crisp brushwork there in the rocks! Nice. Great color variations there too–it’s all too easy to keep it all the same color in the darks or the lights, but you’ve conquered that particular pitfall well. A little softer blending in the rock’s reflection would stop that from jumping out at us and a touch more continuation of the blue hill and and green sky background behind the tree trunk would help make more sense of that top left corner. Otherwise, all good.

6 Jim Neilson

Smuggler’s Bay

Great color and bold brushwork on a large canvas Jim. Nicely done! In your next painting I challenge you to avoid blending out your brushwork so much. It’s mostly noticeable here in the rocks because they have an obvious blocky structure that needs to be painted as such. Looks great on the wall!

7 Karen Woodhouse

Smugglers Bay, acrylic on canvas, 10 x 10" (25 x 25 cm) Really nicely done, Karen. Love the way you’ve rounded some of the rocks going from light to dark, contrasted with other edges that you’ve made sharp. The waves and the beach look great too. Just haven’t quite achieved the hazy light effect from the top left, simply because you didn’t add enough white and orange into those mixtures there so they turned out a little too dark to convey light. You could glaze that in now that it’s dry if you wanted to. Check out my video on glazing with acrylics: www.mypaintingclub.com/blog/post/109glazing-with-acrylics.

Jose Felix 8

Smugglers Bay

Some really nice work in here, Jose. Particularly nice colors with a warm feel to the whole thing. The main rock and the waves look great. The section that the tree grows upon could be a little darker. Beautiful sky with billowing clouds. Great stuff!